Patrolmen T.W. Bracey (left) and J.H. Burnette take Philip Workman to police headquarters on Aug. 5, 1981.
1 posted on
05/08/2007 10:53:22 AM PDT by
SmithL
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convicted of the 1981 shooting death of a Memphis police officer
The first crime was robbing the Wendy's and getting in the gun battle with the cops. The second was waiting so long to punish him.
3 posted on
05/08/2007 10:57:47 AM PDT by
SittinYonder
(Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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"You can't move if you're in pain. You can't bat your eyelashes. You can't do anything." You can die. That's something...
4 posted on
05/08/2007 10:58:03 AM PDT by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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Interesting. Patrolman Bracey is smoking a cigarette while taking the cop killer into custody in 1981.
If he were to do the same in 2007 the Cop Killer would sue the Police Department and win fifty million dollars, be pardoned and Patrolman Bracey would be doing life without parole.
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Reminds me of ‘His Gal Friday’. The poor shmuck killed a “colored police officer” and the mayor relied on “their” votes. (Of course, the weepy bleeding hearts did get him off in the movie. But like Johnie Cash said, this ain’t no movie, so forget about Workman.)
6 posted on
05/08/2007 10:59:42 AM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
("We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.")
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***Workman’s lawyers claimed Tennessee’s new death penalty guidelines unveiled last week could cause unconstitutional pain and suffering, but similar arguments have failed in the higher courts, Sutton wrote. *****
Take him out back and pop a round in his head. Simple.
7 posted on
05/08/2007 11:00:48 AM PDT by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(When someone burns a cross on your lawn the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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Terry Workman, Philip Workman's brother, said he believes the state is intent on putting his brother to death this time... "It would be kind of like standing in front of someone with a loaded weapon and you're wondering if they're going to shoot you," he said. Poor choice of words. One wonders if Police Lt. Ronnie Oliver was not thinking that very thing before Philip Workman gunned him down.
8 posted on
05/08/2007 11:01:03 AM PDT by
gridlock
(On January 20, 2009, Fred Dalton Thompson will be sworn in as President of the United States.)
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"He wounded one officer and shot at a second, but he contends another officer's bullet accidentally killed police Lt. Ronald Oliverso, he would have killed the officer if he was a better shot, but the other officer did it accidentally while defending themselves from him... is that the logic he is using?
13 posted on
05/08/2007 11:03:43 AM PDT by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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if anyone is interested, the ‘American Spectator’ often gives a cheery, restaraunt-style review of the last meal
14 posted on
05/08/2007 11:07:02 AM PDT by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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An Associated Press review found the manual was a jumble of conflicting instructions that mixed lethal injection instructions with those for the old electric chair.Well, that could form the basis for an execution protocol: lethal injection while being electrocuted. ;-)
15 posted on
05/08/2007 11:09:42 AM PDT by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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"The fact that they're continuing to use a protocol, a three-chemical cocktail that's been criticized throughout the county, just illustrates the state is not willing to take a serious look at the problems," he said.So unless the state puts a moratorium on executions till there is not even one death penalty opponent willing to criticize their methods, they're not serious about getting it right? That seems like setting the bar impossibly high.
17 posted on
05/08/2007 11:12:05 AM PDT by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: SmithL
I say hang him on pay-per view!
18 posted on
05/08/2007 11:12:20 AM PDT by
ustanker
(Secure the border!)
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"He wounded one officer and shot at a second, but he contends another officer's bullet accidentally killed police Lt. Ronald Oliver. Even if this is true my understanding is that under the laws of at least some states he's still guilty of first degree murder and,as a result,still qualifies for the hot shot.
19 posted on
05/08/2007 11:13:40 AM PDT by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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Twenty-six stinking years? So much for swift justice!
29 posted on
05/08/2007 11:25:32 AM PDT by
Redleg Duke
("Wave Britainnia...Britannia waives the rules!")
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30 posted on
05/08/2007 11:27:43 AM PDT by
CurlyQ
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“Are the drugs causing unnecessary pain? “
When did “Cruel and unusual punishment come to simply mean “Pain”.
I have found nothing in the Bill of Rights that says pain should be avoided.
In fact, the twisted thought that thugs should be afforded a painless existence or death makes me ill.
We hung people for hundreds of years after the Bill of rights was ratified.
We shot them, we decapitated them and we electrocuted them.
Now simply giving them a Lunesta is deemed “unfair”.
I’d be fine if they just pushed him off the roof.
To: SmithL
If we can get this done, maybe the state can clean out the rest of death row, starting with Reid
33 posted on
05/08/2007 11:28:38 AM PDT by
sticker
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To solve this “dilemma” regarding lethal injection, simply use the execution method soundly approved by the ACLU, Left-Wing, Dems, etc. - stick a scissors in the base of his skull and suck out his brains.
To: SmithL
"Brad MacLean, a Nashville attorney representing another condemned Tennessee inmate, said the three-chemical injection sometimes fails to work and can cause the paralyzed inmates to suffocate and feel pain."
Prove it.
46 posted on
05/08/2007 2:21:24 PM PDT by
RedMonqey
( The truth is never PC)
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50 posted on
05/08/2007 8:28:16 PM PDT by
Ciexyz
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this can't be right...I thought they only put black people to death....
on another note, isn't it odd that killers that have killed MANY people are getting life in prison why someone that has killed only one is getting the DP?
did they ever do ballistics to check out this story?
51 posted on
05/08/2007 9:08:18 PM PDT by
cherry
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